Improved clamp for clothes-lines



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM WINTER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF, ISAAC TOWN SEN D, AND THEODORE H. BVEACHER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVED CLAMP FOR CLOTHES-LINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,263. dated August 14, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VVILLIAW/I WINTER, of the city of Philadelphia, in t-he State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Clamp for Clothes-Lines; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to thel accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Iiigure 1 is a side view ofthe said improved clamp as applied to use, and Fig. 2 a trans verse section across the middle of the same, like letters of reference indicating the'same parts when in both figures.

The nature of my said invention consists in making a spring-clamp for a clothesline so that the middle transverse section of the same will he substantially in ,the form of a hollow cylinder divided along one of its sides, and with its open ends and sides beveled or rounded off at their inner sides, substantially as hereinafter described and setforth, the saine heilig intended to be strung alongin indeiinite numbers upon the line for use, as occasion may require.

1n the drawings, A is the clamp; B, the

,y clothes-line, and U a piece of fabric secured upon the latter by the former.

The clamp A is intended to be made of horn, metal, wood, or other springy material, and about one and a half inch long, with an inner diameter slightly larger than the diameter of the clothes-line, and of sufficient thickness to give it the requisite strength and springiness to admit of its being slipped with facility over the edges of the fabric upon the line, and thus to secure them together, substantially as represented in Fig. l. The inner sides of its ends a a! and separated sides a2 a2 are rounded olf, as shown in the drawings, so as to render its application, by slipping it longitudinally along over the fabric C on the lille B an operation of facility and expedition, an indefinite number of the said clamps A having been previously strung upon the said line.

It will he seen that these clamps applied will be always at hand with the line, and therefore not liable to get lost or mislaid, and

Vbeing small and light in weight, they will Witnesses BENJ. MonrsoN, WM. H. MoRIsoN. 

